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Jean Reynolds

JEAN REYNOLDS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jean's plays have been produced in NYC, L.A., Toronto, London, etc. and have won awards from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Play, Beverly Hills Theatre Guild-Julie Harris Competition (twice), Playwrights First (NYC) and others.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Jean Reynolds's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Catalina         Dance With Me         Forces Of the Universe         Good Girls         Last Intimacy, The         Physical therapy         Waiting for the Bus
Catalina

Synopsis:
1600. San Sebastian, Spain. Catalina de Erauso, 16, a novice in the Dominican Convent, is desperately unhappy. Wishing another kind of life, she seizes an unexpected opportunity and escapes the convent as the day of her final vows approaches. Will she survive outside the convent? the entire town looks for the girl. Catalina, wearing the clothing of a boy, eludes her pursuers. Through a series of increasingly dangerous -- and sometimes comic -- situations, she remakes her identity in a search for survival

Notes:
With doubling the play can be done with 3 women And 3 men. First Prize 2002 Beverly Hill theatre Guild-Julie Harris Competition; rehearsed reading Soho theatre, London

1st Produced:
Triangle Theatre, NYC     2003

Organisations:
Triangle Theatre (workshop)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Dance With Me

Synopsis:
Upstate New York, 1950. Ray meets Grace on a train. there is an immediate connection between them that evolves into love -- a love as deep as the love Ray has for his wife Ruth. When Grace takes a job in Ray's office, Ruth, possibly suspicious, invites her to tea. the women become friends, and perhaps more. Ray, at first disturbed by the growing relationship between the women, is gradually pulled into it. the inevitable three-way collision is both critical and humorous as together they explore the mystery of intimate love -- its boundaries and its power.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Off-Broadway     1998

Organisations:
Abingdon Theatre Company

1st Published:
Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 1995, Smith and Kraus, 1995   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Forces Of the Universe

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Good Girls

Synopsis:
1944. the small town of Welles, New York appears tranquil. Social life, such as it is, revolves around the church choir, made up primarily of women. (Most of the men have gone to war.) Ordinary as the town seems, it has a disturbing past. When Lydia Welles, a former choir member, returns after a mysterious absence of eighteen years and threatens to expose the past, she upsets the town's complacency. How far will the townspeople go to keep their past hidden?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
American Theatre Of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019     2007

Organisations:
American Theatre of Actors

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Last Intimacy, The

Synopsis:
the play, set in 1950, takes place in a funeral home (unit set) owned by Weaver and his brother, Claude. Difficulties arise when Weaver brings home a mysterious woman (Selene) creating a dangerous and violent triangle as the brothers compete for her affection. Devastating results occur culminating in the death of Selene.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lost Nation Theatre, Montpelier, Vt     1990

Organisations:
Lost Nation Theatre

1st Published:
the Best Stage Scenes of 1994, Smith and Kraus, 1994   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Physical therapy

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 24, Samuel French,    

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Waiting for the Bus

Synopsis:
Bunny and Babs, neither of whom will reveal her age, lose their jobs as flight attendants. (Stewardesses! Bunny insists.) Facing an uncertain future, they encounter many challenges. The play examines the comic  and not so comic  ways Bunny and Babs search for answers. Bunny is tormented by big questions. Babs immerses herself in activities, especially her favorite  the pursuit of men.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
NYC Friday Night Footlights     04 Jan 2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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